Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-05 Thread john doe
On 12/5/2020 7:32 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Thanks John. I’m not brave enough to try that yet. I will just backup. Do I need to re format or will the install take care of that? No, the Debian installer (d-i) will per default take care of that for you. Here's what I would suggest: - Backup

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Darac wrote: >On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot >> of the pain: >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader >> >> but it's definitely not something I'd recommend for a novice yet... > >Wow that's a

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Wow that's a really nice tool. I am somewhat boggling, though, at the > idea in the Instructions[1] of crossgrading from arm64 to amd64. What > manner of machine can interpret both of those instruction sets?! While the idea of cross-grading was mostly developed in the context of going from i386

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:05:18PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > I am somewhat boggling, though, at the idea in the Instructions[1] > of crossgrading from arm64 to amd64. What manner of machine can > interpret both of those instruction sets?! A virtual machine, hence qemu! :) Cheers, Andy

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A word of warning for anyone else who wishes to try this: while running > an amd64 kernel on an i386 architecture installation is supported by > Debian, it may not be supported by whatever third-party applications > you're running. Some applications use the kernel's reported architecture > to

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:25:49AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > FWIW, I recently needed to run a amd64 binary on my i386 system. > Rather than make a full install I just added the few needed amd64 packages. > > I.e. something like > > dpkg --add-architecture amd64 > apt update >

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Andrei wrote: >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> >> On Jo, 03 dec 20, 20:17:25, John Hasler wrote: >>> Jerry Mellon wrote: I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after > loading the 64bit version or can I in someway

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:13:11PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Because

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrei wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Jo, 03 dec 20, 20:17:25, John Hasler wrote: >> Jerry Mellon wrote: >> > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian >> > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit >> > version for intel on the system. >> >> > Do I

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 dec 20, 20:17:25, John Hasler wrote: > Jerry Mellon wrote: > > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > > version for intel on the system. > > > Do I have to backup the data I have in my

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 dec 20, 19:13:11, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > > version for intel on the system. > > Why?

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 11:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after loading the

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory You should

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Jerry Mellon wrote: > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after > loading the 64bit version...

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 09:39, Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit > version for intel on the system. > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread basti
Hello, install 64bit over 32 is a bit tricky. If you have a separate /home partion you do not need to backup your data but it is always recommented. When you have a backup of your data I would recomment to use LVM and create lv's not to large, they can grow online. LVM is a more flexeble way to

i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread Jerry Mellon
Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory to load after loading the 64bit version or can I in someway just load